<?php

/*
 * This file is part of SwiftMailer. (c) 2004-2009 Chris Corbyn For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

/**
 * Interface for all Transfer Encoding schemes.
 * 
 * @package Swift
 * @subpackage Mime
 * @author Chris Corbyn
 */
interface Swift_Mime_ContentEncoder extends Swift_Encoder {
	/**
	 * Encode $in to $out.
	 * 
	 * @param Swift_OutputByteStream $os
	 *        	to read from
	 * @param Swift_InputByteStream $is
	 *        	to write to
	 * @param int $firstLineOffset        	
	 * @param int $maxLineLength
	 *        	- 0 indicates the default length for this encoding
	 */
	public function encodeByteStream(Swift_OutputByteStream $os, Swift_InputByteStream $is, $firstLineOffset = 0, $maxLineLength = 0);
	
	/**
	 * Get the MIME name of this content encoding scheme.
	 * 
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getName();
}
